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First Thursday, February 6th 2025

Posted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025 by The Meeting Place

It is clear that not enough is being done to tackle Global Warming, and with President Trump in the White House less progress with come from the USA.  China is doing much, despite its still burning coal.  Global temperatures have reached 1.3 degrees above pre-Industrial levels, though the averages are less (1.2 to 1.3 degrees). …

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First Thursday January 2nd 2025

Posted on February 6, 2025March 19, 2025 by The Meeting Place

What is very clear is that NHS staff maintain their exceptional quality of care in the midst of seriously underfunded and collapsing structures. Efficiencies have sometimes led to misunderstandings but more often to improvements, though social care and psychiatric services lag well behind, while (scandalously) hospices depend largely on charity. This from half a century…

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First Thursday December 5th 2024

Posted on January 2, 2025January 2, 2025 by The Meeting Place

The “Assisted Dying” (Terminally Ill Adults- End of Life) Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons at the end of November, 330 votes in favour, 275 against.  But without adequate debate and amendment to provide safeguards it is unlikely to become law.  Fears of the later widening of the law (as happened…

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First Thursday November 7th 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 by The Meeting Place

Daniel chapter 3 tells how Jews in exile were required by the Babylonian king to worship a golden statue he set up, under threat, if they refused, of a “furnace of blazing fire” (verse 6).  They reply that “our God” could save them “out of your hand”- but even if not, “we will not serve…

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First Thursday, October 3rd 2024

Posted on November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 by The Meeting Place

Why has Keir Starmer acquired the epithet “Undertaker”?  Perhaps because he has deliberately “buried” elements of Corbynism in the Labour Party, to ensure Labour’s “electability” in our first-past-the-post system.  A more representative system could allow for a far more creative political debate, even given the inevitable complications and uncertainties of government by coalition.  And any…

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September 5th 2024 First Thursday

Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 by The Meeting Place

The Report into the Grenfell Tower disaster was been published.  In all twelve volumes of exhaustive detail-  Volumes Two and Three give 240 and 194 pages of often harrowing accounts (including photographs) of people’s lives through the fire of 14th June 2017.  It is clear that the tragedy was the result of 50 years of…

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Open letter from Palestinian Christians

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 by The Meeting Place

A Call for Repentance: An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians 20 October 2023 “Learn to do right; seek justice; defend the oppressed” (Isa 1:17). We, at the undersigned Palestinian Christian institutions and grassroots movements, grieve and lament the renewed cycle of violence in our land. As we were about…

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The Chapel congregation

Posted on November 21, 2015July 13, 2024 by The Meeting Place

Wymington Chapel is a member of the Wesleyan Reform Union, and has a congregation of up to a dozen people.    From Easter 2021 we have been worshipping together on Sunday mornings with St Lawrence Parish Church:  on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in the month at St Lawrence at 9.30 am- these are usually…

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For where your Treasure is

Posted on February 25, 2013October 26, 2021 by The Meeting Place

“For where your Treasure is….”- a summary of our discussions on “What does the Bible say about Wealth?”: Read More >>

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